That the phrase "international Jew" can have more than one meaning. There's a well documented history of Jewish segregation by mutual desire, that the many non-Jewish cultures in which Jews found themselves wanted no part of them and that a lot of Jews took care of their own because no one else would. It often seems something of a chicken/egg thing; even in Roman times, and certainly in Medieval Europe, Jews were viewed with suspicion and distrust, "foreign" in a way that superseded place of birth, and many Jews seemed to take the view that if their people had to survive by any means necessary they'd do exactly that, inverting in their own interactions the same double standards always applied to them. The Tanakh condemns oppressing "strangers" with the admonishment to remember "you were strangers in Egypt" but it also forbids imbibing foreign peoples and traditions lest it lead to idolatry, even states how many generations it takes for a non-Israelite to be "Jewish. " That can lead to two possible extremes: Ultra-nationalist Zionism that says Jews will never be safe except in their own homeland and places the best interests of any Gentile after that of any Jew, or an internationalist secular view that sees national and religious distinctions for Jews or anyone else as anachronistic and unjust.

In the French environment following the Franco-Prussian defeats that makes the Dreyfus Affair kind of inevitable. Both the view that would make French Jews into Israeli expatriates or refugees AND the view that would make Jews, Frenchmen and Germans citizens of the world is anathema to a 19th Century French nationalist.

That may not be what Agent Orange meant, but well could be (I'm sure he'll clarify one way or the other) and since I've been thinking about it ever since I read the lecture I wanted to mention it.